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5.2. Guan ware dish, Southern Song, thirteenth century. PDF A32,
Percival David Collection, British Museum. © SOAS, University
of London 78
5.3. Glazed tile from the so-called “Porcelain Pagoda”, Nanjing. Ming
dynasty, c. 1412–1431. British Museum, 1923,0514.1. © British
Museum 80
6.1. The Second Opium War case. © Reproduced by permission of the
Royal Engineers Museum, Library & Archive 90
6.2. Jade bowl in the shape of a lotus flower. © Reproduced by
permission of the Royal Engineers Museum, Library & Archive 92
6.3. Gilt Bronze Bell from the “Summer Palace”. © Reproduced by
permission of the Royal Engineers Museum, Library & Archive 93
7.1. The Hope Grant Ewer. NMS A.1884.54. © By kind permission
of the National Museums Scotland 100
7.2. Inscription on the base of the Hope Grant Ewer reading, 2nd Year
of the Xianfeng Reign, 1852. © By kind permission of the National
Museums Scotland 101
7.3. Display of Chinese artefacts including the Hope Grant Ewer in the
National Museum of Scotland’s Lady Ivy Wu Gallery between
1996 and 2008. © By kind permission of the National Museums
Scotland 109
7.4. Close-up of the Hope Grant Ewer as it was displayed at the
National Museum of Scotland in the Lady Ivy Wu Gallery between
1996 and 2008. © By kind permission of the National Museums
Scotland 110
7.5. Label used for the Hope Grant Ewer in the Lady Ivy Wu Gallery
at the National Museum of Scotland between 1996 and 2008.
© By kind permission of the National Museums Scotland 110
8.1. Sun Hu and Shen Yuan, Dongtian shenchu no. 40 of the
“40 Views of the Yuanmingyuan,” Qing imperial workshops,
ca. 1745, from the album Différents Palais & Temples de la Chine,
dessinés & gravés a la Chine, compiled before 1769. © Paris,
Bibliothèque nationale de France. 125
8.2. Anonymous Chinese painters. After “Xinghua chunguan”
(Apricot flower spring lodge, no. 9 of the series 40 Views of the
Yuanmingyuan), painting no. 4 in the album Paysages chinois tirés
des jardins de l’empereur, et autres), late eighteenth century.
© Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France 127
8.3. Anonymous Chinese artist, Plate no. 1, unfinished painting from
the album “Twenty views of the European Palaces in the Garden
of Perfect Brightness,” ca. 1786, The University of Manchester
Library, U.K., Rylands Collection, Chinese Collection 457.
Copyright of The University of Manchester 130
9.1. Auguste Allongé and Emile Roch, “Exposition des curiosités
chinoises offertes à l’empereur par l’armée expéditionnaire,”
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Le Monde illustré, 5 année, n° 203, March 2, 1861 139
9.2. General view of the grand salon with the portraits of Louis XV
and Marie Leszczynska. © Fontainebleau, Château 142